CHAD: Women who fled violence in Sudan's Darfur region are being regularly raped in refugee camps

Women who fled violence in Sudan's Darfur region are being regularly raped in refugee camps in neighbouring Chad, despite the presence of U.N.-trained forces, Amnesty International has said. The rights group published a report saying Chadian police supported by the United Nations were doing little to protect women and girls from sexual attacks and other violence by villagers, soldiers, family and in some cases aid workers. A spokesman for the U.N.'s MINURCAT mission in Chad told Reuters there had been some reports of women being attacked, mostly outside camps, but he defended the police and said the security situation was improving in the area.

An escalating insurgency and refugee influxes from conflicts in neighbouring countries have turned Chad into a humanitarian hotspot,with aid agencies struggling to help around half a million people.